After lots of printing and tweaking lineweights I believe I have finished my elevation. The idea behind this brief was to capture texture, age and season into an image created entirely in CAD and I feel this does the trick. Now to show my tutor…

Our trip this year is to Helsinki and then across to Stockholm. We will be viewing work by Alvar Aalto as part of our precedent study as well as visit the site for our brief this year. Cold, hungry but never short of alcohol and fun.

Moving into my second year studying architecture and our current assignment has asked us to study and produce plans for a building assigned to us. All the buildings came from a pool of Alvar Aalto’s work and I had been assigned his house and studio in Helsinki. I have...

Back for year two and my first brief! All our briefs work towards a single project this year and we are starting by looking at some Japanese joints; as our main brief is based around constructing a from timber this experiment should open our eyes to how timber can...